1.The [West German] Federal Law for the Compensation of Victims of
National Socialist Persecution (amended and supplemented to 06/18/56),
referred to as “Federal Compensation Law - BEG[1]"
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IN RECOGNITION OF THE FACT
that wrongs have been committed against persons who, under the oppressive
National Socialist regime, were persecuted because of their political
opposition to National Socialism or because of their race, religion or
ideology... persecutee[s] ... [and/or their survivors
in certain instances,] ...shall have...claim[s] for compensation.

2.Austrian General Social Insurance Act (GSIA) - “social insurance
payments. . based...on wage credits granted under [certain provisions of the Act]
to individuals who suffered a loss during the period March 1933 to May 1945 for
political, religious or ethnic reasons.”SSA
POMS §SI00830.715A

3.Netherlands’
Act on Benefits for Victims of Persecution 1940-1945(WUV) — “payments to . . . victims of persecution because of
their race, religion, beliefs, or homosexuality and, as a result of that
persecution are presently suffering from illnesses or disabilities.” SSA POMS
§SI00830.725

3.Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation, (E.D.N.Y., CV96-4849)-
Action against Swiss banks and other Swiss entities for those “persecuted or
targeted for persecution because they were or were believed to be Jewish, Romani, Jehovah Witness, homosexual, or physically or
mentally disabled or handicapped,” and those who performed “slave labor for an
entity headquartered, organized or based in Switzerland.”
See http://www.swissbankclaims.com/

II.Current Law

Payments. . .
to. . .victims of Nazi persecution shall
be disregarded in determining eligibility for and the amount of benefits or
services to be provided under any Federal or federally assisted program which
provides benefits or services based, in whole or in part, on need.

2.By statute, Connecticut excludes
from income “Holocaust victims’ settlement payments” made to Holocaust victims
in determining “eligibility for, or the benefit level of, such individual in
any needs-based program under the general statutes,” or in determining the
victim’s ability to repay benefits as a legally liable relative. Conn.
Gen. Stat. § 1-1l (eff. 05/26/00).
See Corn. Gen. Stat. § 12-701(35)
and (36) for definitions of “Holocaust victim settlement payment” and
“Holocaust victim.”

III.Medicaid Estate Recovery of Payments Made to
Victims of Nazi Persecution.